Asswage vs Assuage - What's the difference?
asswage | assuage | Alternative forms |
* , Genesis 8:1
* , Job 16:5-6
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
* Addison
* Burke
* Byron
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
To pacify or soothe (someone).
(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Asswage is an alternative form of assuage.
As verbs the difference between asswage and assuage
is that asswage is (assuage) while assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc).asswage
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Verb
(en-verb)- And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged ;
- 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
- 6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
References
* *assuage
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(assuag)- Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .
- to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
- the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge
- I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
